Richard Burton of Bloomfield is wearing a black T-shirt, dark blue denim jeans with four-inch cuffs and a shiny pompadour. His bangs are coated in gobs of pomade. A wallet chain stylishly dangles from ...

A genre that blends together country, rock and R&B, rockabilly is one of the most uniquely American — and uniquely Southern — forms of music in existence. From its early champions, including rock 'n’ ...

Documentary filmmaker Brent Huff has tackled some pretty intense material — teenage drug abuse, the pressure cooker politics of fashion modeling — but his latest feature, “It’s a Rockabilly World,” ...

Perkins, who died in 1998, wrote "Blue Suede Shoes," the hit song sung by Elvis Presley, which became the first Sun label record to sell over a million copies. He spoke to Fresh Air in 1996. This is ...

After school every day, George turned on the radio and listened to tunes from Jimmie Rodgers, Big Bill Broonzy, Slim Whitman, and various English music-hall numbers. In 1992, George told Timothy White ...

Want to live as if it’s still the 1950s? You can — and you’re not alone. Photographer Jennifer Greenburg has spent more than a decade chronicling the “rockabilly” subculture of America, in which ...

This essay is one in a series celebrating women whose major contributions in recording occurred before the time frame of NPR Music's list of 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women. When Wanda Jackson was ...

5 Seconds of Summer put the old-school machismo of Japan’s Rockabilly culture at the center of their new video for “Youngblood.” The anachronistic clip follows a gang of Fonz lookalikes through Tokyo.

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Albert “Sonny” Burgess, who was an early pioneer of what became known as rockabilly music, has died in his native Arkansas. Burgess died Friday in Little Rock, according to the Dillinger Funeral Home ...